Given that we can share the unvarnished truth ‘cuz America, I was (sort of, kind of) expecting our traffic to take a bit of a hit when the EU’s new censorship regime went into effect. Nothing yet, but we should note the globalists see this as a template for the world.
Emphasis in the original.
More than a dozen of the world’s biggest tech companies face unprecedented legal scrutiny, as the European Union’s sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) imposes new rules on content moderation*, user privacy and transparency.
From Friday, a host of internet giants – including Meta’s (META.O) Facebook and Instagram platforms, Apple’s online App Store, and a handful of Google (GOOGL.O) services – will face new obligations in the EU, including preventing harmful content from spreading, banning or limiting certain user-targeting practices, and sharing some internal data with regulators and associated researchers…
We do not get much traffic from social media in general, so there is no loss there, but any filtering of search results could cut into our EU traffic. Depending on the month, there are typically a few European Countries in our top ten for daily traffic. Today, for example, the UK is number four, the Netherlands is seventh, and Germany is tenth.
By the way, China is consistently in the top three, as is Canada, and both are unfriendly to free speech.
And if you care, Pakistan, Australia, and India are also in the top ten for the past 30 days, and again, I have no idea why except when the majority language is the same, but I suppose Google translate has gotten better so that’s less of a limitation than it once was.
As for the EU thing
The overarching goal of the DSA is to foster safer online environments. Under the new rules, online platforms must implement ways to prevent and remove posts containing illegal goods, services, or content while simultaneously giving users the means to report this type of content.
Additionally, the DSA bans targeted advertising based on a person’s sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, or political beliefs and puts restrictions on targeting ads to children. It also requires online platforms to provide more transparency on how their algorithms work.
And then this.
The EU is seen as the global leader in tech regulation, with more wide-ranging pieces of legislation – such as the Digital Markets Act and the AI Act – on the way. The bloc’s success in implementing such laws will influence the introduction of similar rules around the world.
The EU is leading the way on censorship with more than a foot in the door. They encourage member states to impose monarchical speech standards where the government approves it. If you dare to challenge that, you might end up like this guy.
This is about a Norwegian man named Trond Harald Haaland. He has long been outspoken about things like the World Economic Forum, climate change and vaccine passports. He has posted a lot about the excess death rates we have been seeing after the roll out of the mRNA vaccines.
In other words, this is a man who does not believe the mainstream media narrative. He thinks for himself. And he has been actively criticizing the Norwegian health system for what happened during the pandemic. …
Now someone had anonymously reported him to the police for being “mentally unstable”. We have no idea who it was. Could be anyone. It could be some antifa extremist that had reported him for all we know.
Then the police contacted the health system based on this anonymous tip.
That is all that was needed for two “health care workers” together with two uniformed police officers to arrive at his door and forcibly haul the man away and lock him up in a phsyciatric ward.
Before the response to COVID, we’d consider this extreme, but no more.
Now add the growing political embrace of assisted suicide and its proposed use on the poor and mental health patients, and we can see a path from state-sanctioned censorship to medical execution.
The EU’s new law is currently directed primarily at ad content and large platforms, but they have the totalitarian itch, and mission creep will expand the reach under the guise of limiting content they deem harmful, especially when it contradicts their politics and policy.
The law itself will become the harmful content, and the people of Europe will be the ones that suffer.
HT | PJ Media
